Sleep Problem

Sharpy200

Sharpy200

Sharpy200

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Hi All,

I have just recently built my first pc & i have installed Win7 X64. When i put my computer to sleep it powers doen for about a second & them comes back on. I am new to this and cant for tlife of me figure it. Pleae help. :)
 
Have you enabled the sleep in the BIOS? Try unplugging a USB device, as one of them could be preventing the computer from sleeping, as can certain bits of hardware.
 
PhillyDee said:
Have you enabled the sleep in the BIOS? Try unplugging a USB device, as one of them could be preventing the computer from sleeping, as can certain bits of hardware.
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Can't you set external drives/devices to power down after 'x' amount of time anyway?!
 
Go to Power Options in Control Panel, click "change plan settings", then click " change advanced power settings". Here you will find all the options for waking from sleep.
I had a similar problem a while back and never managed to find the culprit, so don`t use it any longer, more hassle than what is worth.
 
Sounds like it mate. I will have another look in power options. Just had a call from a friend who has just installed win7 & now he is having the same issue.
 
Sorted. Thanks all. I still couldn't find anything in the bios. I found the cmd lines for powercfg which showed me what was causing the problem. :)
 
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